by Lyn | Apr 12, 2018 | Home, Published
I’m excited to share the news that “Painted Ocean” has just come out in Australia’s premier SF&F magazine, Aurealis issue #109. This story has a lot of personal history. If you’re interested, you can read a bit about it here (there...
by Lyn | Mar 29, 2018 | Published, Rants
Or, how a friendly enquiry elicited a long rant about how “Painted Ocean” came to be and how it found a happy home with Aurealis, Australia’s premier fantasy and science fiction magazine. “Painted Ocean” will be published in April...
by Lyn | Jan 28, 2018 | Rants, Recollections
I recently came across the Japanese term “Ikigai” which is a rather lovely concept with definitions ranging from “a reason to get up in the morning” to the more poetic “allowing the self’s possibilities to blossom”. It got me...
by Lyn | Nov 7, 2017 | Recollections
Saying goodbye to a beloved pet is so very hard and today we said farewell to a darling boy, a much loved part of our family. Neo came to live with us when he was nine years old in 2013. He came from a loving home but he really didn’t like it when his mum went...
by Lyn | Sep 22, 2017 | Rants
Progress! I have a story. It’s really, really short but it’s complete; a rounded sort of story that doesn’t occur to me that often. “The Stone Disciple” came out of a workshop weekend (which I will write more about in due course when I...